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The document discusses how to think outside the box. It recommends asking why we should think outside the box, which box we are referring to, and how, where, and when to go outside the box. Thinking outside the box is not a luxury but a necessity to distinguish ourselves. We need to expose ourselves to divergent information to cross the boundary in our minds between what we know and don't know. Once outside the box, there is no preset direction - we must resist the temptation to return to safety and instead value long thinking, being open-minded, and considering alternatives rather than a single right answer.
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- 1. How to thinkout of the box a TED talk By Giovanni Corazza
- 3. Have you everbeen assigned an easy task, which for you is actually very difficult? That is when you experience frustration
- 4. For example, when yoursinging teacher asks “Sing from your diaphragm!” That’s easy for HER to do, but for you it’s actually difficult and it’s a secret of the singing greats.
- 5. Or when yourboss says, “Come on! Give me your ideas! Think out-of-the-box!” “Easy, simple.” But actually very hard to do.
- 6. You need practiceto do this. You should know: • HOW to get out of the box • WHERE to go, and • HOW to come back into the box (because that’s where you live)
- 7. The first questionyou should ask is WHY? Why should we go out of the box?
- 8. We feel safein our boxes.
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- 10. We are allnodes in a network sharing information with each other in real time. Eventually, we will all possess the same information. And if we all possess the same information, what distinguishes us from one another? Where does our dignity as human beings lie?
- 11. So to thinkcreatively, to think out of the box, is not a LUXURY, that only a few people possess, But a NECESSITY
- 12. The next questionwe should ask is WHICH? Which box are we talking about?
- 13. IS IT OURMIND? No.
- 14. Rather, it isa boundary WITHIN our minds between….. WHAT YOU KNOW. WHAT YOU HAVEN’T THOUGHT ABOUT.
- 15. This box welive in is a creation of OUR TEACHINGS OUR SUCCESSES OUR FAILURES Which make up, in most part, who we are. And whatever is OUTSIDE this “box” is INVISIBLE to us. That is why it’s so RISKY to go out.
- 16. 1 How do wego out of the box? HOW?
- 17. We perceive things asthey are because that’s how they have been our whole life. This is convergent informationBut what we need is,
- 18. Information. This is theONE MECHANISM required for out of the box thinking.
- 19. Divergent information refers tosomething that is WRONG, ABSURD or NOT APPARANTLY RELEVANT We need divergent information To cross the border within our minds Between what we know and what we do not know yet.
- 20. 1 Where do yougo once you are out of the box? WHERE?
- 21. Once we areout of the box, where Do we go? There is no preset direction. There is no preset direction once we get out of the box. There is a potential situation that brings us to the feeling that…...
- 22. Nothing is makingsense! We need to go back now. Back to the safety of our box!
- 23. We need to RESIST thistemptation
- 24. We need tovalue LONG thinking.
- 25. What is LONGthinking? Judging something as an ensemble rather than judging its individual parts. Like judging an entire book rather than each of the words, or judging an entire song rather than each of the notes. Judging an ensemble of ideas and application of these ensembles to areas where they have never been applied.
- 26. We need tobe OPEN MINDED.
- 27. We need tothink of ALTERNATIVES And not THE RIGHT ANSWER!
- 28. Because when itcomes to CREATIVITY There is no one right answer!
- 29. 1 What is thevalue of our new idea? WHAT?
- 30. How do weassess the value of the new idea we got from our time exploring out of the box?
- 31. We could testthe idea for some particular value and then test it on a problem that is not our own. Evaluating it per say.
- 32. 1 What is ita good idea to challenge the current environment? WHEN?
- 33. When do youchallenge everyone around you? To think out of the box?
- 34. We do thisby incorporating elements of divergent information in our current environment. Use metaphors & match different disciplines!
- 35. Only in thatcase the environment will become prone to the generation of new ideas!
- 36. So these arejust some guidelines that show that thinking out of the box isn’t really that hard!
- 37. A QUICK JUMP OUTOF THE BOX IS MORE INSIGHTFUL THAN A LIFETIME OF STANDARD THINKING GIOVANNI E. CORAZZA
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- 39. Created by Kunal Eapen,IIIT Allahabad During an internship by Prof. Sameer Mathur, IIM Lucknow www.iiminternship.com